veteran
avant-gardist Steve Stapleton of Nurse With Wound); and behind

Faust's comeback
album "Rien", which was spliced together by experimentalist Jim
O'Rourke out of live recordings of the group's reunion tour of America from

a few years
earlier. O'Rourke is also working on a remix project for Mille Plateaux, where
he's using the Frankfurt-based label's entire avant-techno roster as source
material.

And all the above is before you even begin
taking into account

entire genres of
contemporary dance music, like trip hop, house and

jungle, where the
simultaneous release of a bunch of barely

recognisable
remakes by several different remixers (four,

five, six, and
more!) is a common occurrence, and the "re-remix"

can prolong a
track's dancefloor currency to a year or longer.

Dance music has
its own 'remix albums' featuring guest producers, like trip-hopper DJ Food's
recent "Refried Food", or The Shamen's CD-worth of versions of the
same song, "Move Any Mountain". (One version consisted of
dissassembled components of the track, to enable the listener to construct
their own remix). Dance also has the 'remix tribute' album, where instead of
covering songs by the original artist (as in the rock tribute album), forgotten
innovators like Chris & Cosey or Yellow Magic Orchestra are 'honored' by
having their classics vandalised by their aesthetic progeny.